Belman and and angry sausage

[adam5016]

caught my first belman today using a 10ft loomis and sl20sh with 20pd line.
Didn't put up much of a fight though - untill it reached the shorebreak!

Sand prawn was the bait preferred by this fishy and a couple of blacktail and undersize white steenbras (not sand steenbras, didn't get any of them).
Released the fish, only to see it wash up on shore 30m away. Well, lunch tomorrow then. How are they rated as an eating fish?

Saw some seals, whales and dolphins cruising just offshore and something else - it was destoying a very big seal carcass, tossing it around and slamming it on the surface like a croc does. lasted about 20min.

anyhow, my first belman 63cm - 3,9kg

 

[adam5016]

Oh, and a not very impressed "toffie"

strange to see the change in colour

 

[Chris Shelton]

apparently one of the tastiest fish in the sea. Bon appetite!

 

[flippy]

nice tasting fish, well done...:fishn

 

[adam5016]

Thx guys. gonna toss it on the braai tomorrow. Salt, pepper, lime and maybe a few slices of onion. Will let you guys know how it goes

 

[Katonkel Tom]

MMMMMMMMMMMM "destroying a seal carcass!" More details please, where were you fishing?

 

[adam5016]

paradise, next to the kromme river. at first we thought it was a just a seal then we saw the shark's head coming out and tossing the seal around. wasn't a sharpnose by the look of it. saw lots of other sharks as well cruising on the surface. some hammers and some that looked rather "stocky" in build, but pretty big.

 

[Upcoming Star]

adam5016 wrote:

Thx guys. gonna toss it on the braai tomorrow. Salt, pepper, lime and maybe a few slices of onion. Will let you guys know how it goes

no man, you need to make it one nice hot masalah curry an ol

DEFINATELY the tastiest fish!

how deep you casted for it mate?

 

[adam5016]

Upcoming Star wrote:

adam5016 wrote:

Thx guys. gonna toss it on the braai tomorrow. Salt, pepper, lime and maybe a few slices of onion. Will let you guys know how it goes

no man, you need to make it one nice hot masalah curry an ol

DEFINATELY the tastiest fish!

how deep you casted for it mate?

about 30m, pushing tide

 

[roland]

Best tasting fish, but adam please, no onions lol. A garlic butter sauce . Yum. Nice catch. The best when targeting them, you dont have to cast a mile for them. You should catch one on a 8ft rod. Hehe

 

[roland]

Best tasting fish, but adam please, no onions lol. A garlic butter sauce . Yum. Nice catch. The best when targeting them, you dont have to cast a mile for them. You should catch one on a 8ft rod. Hehe

 

[adam5016]

roland wrote:

Best tasting fish, but adam please, no onions lol. A garlic butter sauce . Yum. Nice catch. The best when targeting them, you dont have to cast a mile for them. You should catch one on a 8ft rod. Hehe

Was fishing light tackle for your challenge, but this fish swallowed the bait down and was gill hooked. all the fish we caught were very close to shore. shore side of a "working" sandbank with a deep cross gully.

that garlic butter sauce does sound good!

next time i'm going there i'll definately have some heavy tackle with me for those sharks. first time i've seen so many from shore.:shark

 

[deezynking]

wel done adam, i think roland sumd it up nicely....garlic butter sauce, on flames....eish. or u could make a breyani...lol.

 

[WalkersKiller]

Nice fish bru well done!

 

[Fallies]

Hi Guys, i'm in the southern suburbs in cape town, is there any good spot you can recommend for some belman?

 

[Fallies]

Flippy, you from cape town what do you recon...i'm sure you know a couple of spots.

 

[flippy]

for belman monwabisi is a good bet, closest i caught belman was at die dam...

 

[Fallies]

Thanks, Flippy. I was at Die Dam last weekend and got two nice Elf and the guy next to me was there right through the night he had about 4 nice size Kob to show for it

 

[roland]

adam5016 wrote:

roland wrote:

Best tasting fish, but adam please, no onions lol. A garlic butter sauce . Yum. Nice catch. The best when targeting them, you dont have to cast a mile for them. You should catch one on a 8ft rod. Hehe

Was fishing light tackle for your challenge, but this fish swallowed the bait down and was gill hooked. all the fish we caught were very close to shore. shore side of a "working" sandbank with a deep cross gully.

that garlic butter sauce does sound good!

next time i'm going there i'll definately have some heavy tackle with me for those sharks. first time i've seen so many from shore.:shark

Next time you come this side you let me know

 

[aquadementia]

great fish Adam